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Concord :: Concord (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

Leptocardia :: Leptocardia (n. pl.) The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament..

Segment :: Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration..

Chord :: Chord (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4..

Polychord :: Polychord (a.) Having many strings.

Diphycercal :: Diphycercal (a.) Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal..

Vertebrata :: Vertebrata (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Lep

Chordee :: Chordee (n.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea..

Toccata :: Toccata (n.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio..

Clarichord :: Clarichord (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord..

Notochordal :: Notochordal (a.) Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.

Harpsichord :: Harpsichord (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano..

Poly- :: Poly- (a.) A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as, polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms; polychord, polyconic..

Spinet :: Spinet (n.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used..

Hexachord :: Hexachord (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones..

Tetrachord :: Tetrachord (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable..

Keynote :: Keynote (n.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone..

Cadence :: Cadence (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord..

Tremando :: Tremando (a.) Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

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